Updated : October 2020
This article stresses the need for textile exports to enable countries to reduce poverty among the textile communities.
It refers to the report of the World Bank on The Promise and Peril of Post-MFA Apparel Production, and states that apparel production between countries has resulted in mixed results in wages and poverty reduction across the developing world. It highlights both the positive and negative impacts experienced by various countries and the reasons behind the same.
The article concludes that policies are a key to improve competitiveness and workforce programs and increasing textile exports would enable countries to reduce poverty among textile communities.
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